Are You Prepared for Any Crisis?

Everyone has a personal bias they bring to any situation they are placed in. Your mental baggage is formed in part by who you are...

12 Survival Items You May Have Overlooked

When we talk about survival, there are certain items that immediately come to mind. We start with the discussion of beans, bullets and band-aids. This...

Practical Bug Out Reloading

Things had not gone exactly as planned for Louis, Julia, and their three-year-old twins Melissa and Victor. For a couple of years, they had been...

The Prepper’s Guide To Female Hygiene

There are some things we can still count on to remain the same after SHTF. A woman’s time of the month being one of them....

100 Deadly Skills – Lifesaving Tips for Preppers

Going back to my learning style, 100 Deadly Skills isn’t a technical manual. It isn’t a college level white paper on the various...

5 Knots You Need to Know How to Tie at All Times

5 Security Measures That Will Keep You Alive During Doomsday

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”, were the wise words once uttered by one of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, and they...

How Chemistry Class Saved My Life

While in high school chemistry class you would have been called a geek or nerd if you ever truly believed that “I am going to...

Are You Planning to Fail If SHTF?

I have written a few articles on the subject of planning with respect to prepping because it seems to me like a logical step but...

How To Create Your Own Home Defense Plan

You may have a plan to evacuate during a house fire or even a plan to evacuate during an earthquake. But does a home defense...

Four Ways to Increase your Survival Endurance

Regardless of whether you are just now getting into prepping or you have been prepping for years, there is more to survival than having a...

Prepping Supplies: The Medical Bag

Equipped with a large database of knowledge, co workers and all the equipment/supplies they need at their fingers tips.. it is no secret that America...

How To Build Your Own Survival Fishing Kit

If you are planning to build a survival fishing kit on your own and so are looking for some guides, then your search stops right...

When Darkness Falls

Editor’s Note: This is a post  from Grandpa and it’s a long one!  I am…. The shortest sentence in the English language. Which demonstrates the limits...

Lessons from History – Hand Powered Tools

In my kitchen, I have a simple slider mandolin, mason jar pump-top onion chopper, and a salad spinner. I’m going to break down and get...

Preppers – Take that Target off Your Back

There are many aspects of Prepping that we think of from a tactical perspective as being information we wouldn’t want to share with everyone. You...

Weather: The Natural Disaster Maker

When I first started studying weather forecasting, I had several good books on the subject with a pocket weather guide the easiest reference to carry...

10 Must Have Natural Remedies for Preppers

  Imagine women giving birth centuries ago or imagine you suffer from some critical injury or serious ailment. Centuries ago, there was not the concept of technology and there certainly...

What Type of Firewood is Best?

Woods that are harder or denser, like oak, hickory and ash, typically burn longer and produce hotter coals. And, a low moisture count (using wood...

Lessons from History – The Importance of Water

Throughout history, settlements form near water. The largest and most successful settle with plentiful water. There are a number of reasons for that. One, water...

Blackout! – Power Outage Checklist

In preparation for National Geographic’s American Blackout ; I wanted to create my own power outage checklist for preppers. The premise of the show from the website...

Radio Silence – Communication Without Electronics

I love modern technology, particularly the electronics that allow me to communicate so quickly and easily. Even so, the loss of that capability – for...

SHTF Plan: Preparing for a Power Outage

The number one thing I prepare for is a POWER OUTAGE when SHTF. Every SHTF series of events, includes the inevitable power outage. In fact,...

Permaculture Zone Planning for When Winter is Coming

Usually sectors gets covered first. I’m going to cover Zones instead. I highly endorse doing a search for “permaculture sectors” – that’s where risks and...

Things that ALWAYS Fail!

What is a flashlight? It is a storage container for dead batteries as are all other battery-operated devices. We all know this, after all who...

4 Absolutely Necessary Things Every Prepper Must Realize

Before anything else I will quickly mention one thing that has been repeated a lot but is always worth mentioning – physical fitness! I have...

Operation “Trick or Treat”

Halloween is arguably one of the best days of the year to conduct surveillance, practice your bug out drills, and really test your prepper OPSEC....